I arrived too late and agree with Acella's opener...In totality. I'll give my version of the bottom line:

Massing in the hundreds of thousands and even millions doesn't display the 'power of the people' or some self-interpreted right to be here. It only displays mass ignorance and arrogance.

Do they honestly think they advanced their cause yesterday?

If I robbed Acella's house and then stood outside of it with a sign proclaiming my felon-existence, I would be in the back of a squad car in no-time flat...And deservedly so.

We must go into LOCKDOWN-mode on the border. If that means a Berlin Wall, then so be it. We have to protect our soverignty and our security. We must do this at all cost. Anyone doubting this need only be reminded of 9/11 or see United 93 (the latter due to the fact that memories are painfully short in this country). I don't care the cost, secure the fu*king border. Use the military as it is a national security issue. Do whatever must be done.

As for those who are here ILLEGALLY I congratulate you for having the audacity (wevos?) to thumb your nose so blatantly at a country you proclaim to love. Fu*k you. I appreciate that the backward-ass country, from which you hail, didn't hold any financial promise for you. That being said, I could care less. Not my (our) problem. And if your indiginous immigration policies do not allow you to come here at all, legally immigrate to a different country where you actually have a legal shot at legally immigrating here. There's no argument, at all, that justifies the fact that you have broken our laws to get here. The pompous, laughable and arrogant way in which you think that massing, at all, gives you some kind of strength would be ridiculous if it weren't for the fact that the media would have us believe it meant something.

Go home.

I say this not in anger, spite or in hatred. I say this as a law-abiding citizen of America who would be put in prison if I blatantly broke your immigration laws and illegally jumped into Mexico from anywhere south of it.

Leave.

I barely have the time, in this memorandum, or the inclination to stipulate that your existence, somehow, is benefitting me. The normal one hour and 10 minute commute I make daily took a mere 14 minutes yesterday. I didn't suffer one iota with your gathering downtown yesterday and I'm certain I would make due without all of you--and while this may be a rant (primarily) against Mexicans, it should be understood that I know they aren't the only ones here without the approval of our law.

We, as a nation, got along fine before you. We got along based on immigrants who legally migrated here and made us what we are today. Your presence here disgusts the very fabric of our history and how immigrants made the U.S. the U.S. And these were LEGAL aliens. Not ILLEGAL and therein lies the difference.

There are no shades of gray. You are either here because you followed our laws or you are not. Period.

We have laws on the books to combat this infestation of criminals. We don't need more (McCain/Kennedy) laws to this effect. Enforce the ones that are in effect. Don't make a mockery of your political predecessors, or worse yet, the Bill of Rights and The Constitution by going into political spin now. Sadly, voting districs (which equal power) are decided by a census on population...Not whether or not the actual voting bodice of the population is here legally.

...Which brings me to our political whore of a mayor here in Los Angeles Antonia Villaraigosa (if I spelled his name incorrectly, I don't care). I voted, not for him, so I have a singularly unique perspective in complaining about this sh*t-ball. I watched as he pimped himself before the massed community--himself a radical Mexican by heritage--proclaiming before hundreds of thousands that without illegal immigrants "...who would clean 'their' toilets..." Fu*king ingrate. While he is absolutely an ingrate, I thought this was particularly funny: Nice of him to further-bastardize the cause of the illegal immigrant who claims to be here for noble objectives (earning/learning/bettering). The good mayor, in his ridiculous diatribe, decreed that what illegals are really here fighting for, is for their own bottom-of-the-barrel social class in which their aspirations for being here revolve around the cleansing of my cammode. Woooonderful. Why don't you continue to perpetuate the myth that all illegals are good for (beyond breaking our laws) is for manually-demeaning labor.

I'm a Republican and proudly admit it. I love our president. However, I do not support some of his policies which includes any mention of 'an amnesty' or 'guest-worker program'. This is political pandering at its worst and clear evidence that while he is strong in many of his convictions (against terror) that he is willing to be a sell-out when it comes to big-business. After all, big business is the only group that really stands to profit. Someone mentioned earlier that they would gladly pay more for their lawn/pool-maintenance and berry picking, et al. I'm down with that. I'm two weeks away from having my first child. I would gladly allow my son or daughters' first job to be picking grapes, washing cars or house cleaning in exchange for the understanding in life that nothing is free and a living must be earned.

While I'm not Mexican, I grew up as a foster child in California, living in a foster home where the parents were Mexican/spoke-Spanish. Ironically, my first job at the age of 11, while in this foster home, was to pick avocado's and raisin's on the farms of their relatives in Fresno and Reedley, California. Granted, I didn't have a choice. I was 'free labor' for the relatives of these foster parents. Most-importantly I learned that if I wanted to succeed in life, it was going to be through hard work. If I wanted to earn more than $5/week or minimum wage, or even less than minimum wage, I would have to get a formal education--which I did and paid-for on my own.

I've digressed: Go the fu*k home. My use of asterisk-laced profanity, while a depature from civility, should convey how I truly feel about this nuisance-issue.

I could go on and on, but it would only get more vitriolic as "Chapter 2" may hold clues to how I really feel about what illegals are doing to our community from an image and financial standpoint.

I welcome anyone who has a differing opinion.